#SmealWeeklyRecap featuring Rohit Anand ‘20 MBA

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Featured Alum: Rohit Anand ‘20 MBA, Associate Director of Product Management at Humana?

Rohit Anand started his career journey with Microsoft, USA, as a core Software Engineer, after getting his Bachelor’s degree from the South Dakota State University. As part of Microsoft consulting services, he got an opportunity to work with several Fortune 500 companies to help them through different phases of their digital transformation. At the same time, he completed his Masters of Professional Studies in Enterprise Architecture from the College of IST, Penn State University World Campus. He followed it with MBA in Marketing Analytics from the Smeal College of Business, Penn State University World Campus. While completing his education alongside his fulltime jobs, he transitioned from the professional role of a software engineer to a product manager, working for companies like UnitedHealth Group, Cigna and currently Humana. His current role involves creating Omni-channel strategies and leading the execution efforts to influence the best in class consumer centric shopping journey. While Rohit is busy improving consumer shopping experience in the world of healthcare, he is an adjunct instructor for Smeal College of Business (World Campus) teaching business ethics to the MBA students. He also volunteers for the Penn State World Campus as an Alumni Ambassador answering questions from prospective students.

Rohit’s career tip: Do not be scared of the unknown, embrace the change, and continue to pursue your dreams. There are no doubts that you will be successful.

News and Resources

• Articles relating to?healthy living/wellness, hybrid/remote work, job market, Meta (Facebook), and metaverse/virtual reality :?Articles on these topics are from publications like Business Insider, Harvard Business Review, Forbes, SCM Magazine, Vault, Fast Company, The Guardian, Gallup, Morning Brew, The Washington Post, New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, The Economist, Entrepreneur Daily, Bloomberg and more!??Is it productive to do nothing? What does the future of wellness look like? Has hybrid work tanked work/life balance? Is remote work making you ruder? Can you have a poor job report with an economic boom? Would you hire a boomerang employee? Why did Meta's (Facebook) stocks jump? Why doesn't Meta (Facebook) allow you to control your own feed? Will the metaverse eliminate privacy all together? What's going on with metaverse cryptocurrencies? Check out these articles and more at the link above!
• Podcast release! Perfect for the new year, make sure to tune in and listen to Smeal alumnus Roger Osorio!

???#39 The Reinvention of Mental Wellbeing

Alumnus Roger Osorio ’04 FINIB, a reinvention coach and founder of The School of Reinvention, discusses his own path, tips for reinventing your mental wellbeing, why and how companies should include wellbeing into their strategy along with how to reinvent our own selfcare by developing healthy habits.

“There are things that we can do to be intentional about designing our days, our routines, our lives for sustainable wellbeing, even when our jobs are not perfect.”–Roger Osorio

Congratulations to our recent Smeal lifelong learners!

#lilfelonglearner - Anyone who continues to learn and/or fosters learning in others by sharing their knowledge and experience!

1. Savanah Baker '21 M I S is excited to passed the Oracle NetSuite Financial User exam.
2. Amanda J. Balliet '08 M I S is a Certified SAFe? 5 Advanced Scrum Master and a Certified SAFe? 5 Program Consultant issued by Scaled Agile Inc. She also is a Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner and a Be Equal Ally ?both issued by IBM.?
3. Claire Doneker '21 M I S is a Certified SAFe? 5 Product Owner/Product Manager thanking TJX for the opportunity to further her professional development.
4. Ankit Goswami '13 MBA is certified in Fundamentals of Visualization with Tableau issued by Coursera.
5. Ed Hanlon '98 M I S is a Blue Core Mentor , IBM Cloud Pak for Automation - Architect and Watson Assistant Sales Foundation all issued by IBM.
6. Rhea Lobo '15 MKTG earned a certificate of completion for the course “Customer Service: Call Control Strategies” issued by LinkedIn Learning.
7. Carson Sniegocki '21 SC&IS earned a Leading Digital Transformation Workshop Badge 2021 and is a MANA Storytelling Champion both issued by Ericsson.
8. Abbey Tuttle '19 MKTG attended marketing training at Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management to learn about practical customer journey mapping, assumption based modeling and data-driven storytelling.
9. John Waddell '14 SC&IS earned a certification in Azure Fundamentals issued by Microsoft.?
10. Lara Warner ?'88 FIN has successfully completed Authentic Leadership Development through Harvard Business School.

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Come lifelong learn with us in 2022! Most webinars are LIVE on Wednesdays at Noon ET. They're free and everyone is welcome! #masterclasses

Leadership in Contemporary Times ?featuring Dr. Duane "Andy" Gustafson, Associate Professor of Leadership Communication at Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University. -?January 19 #backbypopulardemand #masterclass

Yearly Federal Tax Update for Smeal Alumni ?(Students, Faculty, Staff and Friends are welcome too!) featuring Edward R. Jenkins ’77 Economics, ’84 MBA, Smeal Professor of Practice in Accounting and Managing Member at Jenkins &Co., LLC?- February 3 (Thursday) #backbypopulardemand #masterclass

Virtual Competition and Cost of Capital: Evidence from Telehealth featuring Dr. Kimberly Cornaggia, Louis R. & Virginia A. Benzak Professor of Finance, Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University - March 2 #masterclass

Happy New Year!????? #WeAre???